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Originally Posted by Paul
Or just use the correct tools to protect the PC properly, sometimes it's not the browser but the browsing habits that can cause the problems  |
I agree. I find it quite amusing when people say "Firefox is secure" - yes, it's more secure then IE, but only because no one is bothered about exploiting Firefox's many security holes yet. Its biggest one is the massive memory leak that's not been fixed since version 1. I'm sure lots of things can be done with that.
Everybody slags off the BHO (browser helper objects) in IE, and yes - they were probably a bad idea. What does Firefox do to beat this? Extensions. As soon as Firefox becomes a more dominant browser naughty crackers are going to find little holes (or big memory leaks) to insert code which puts lovely, nasty extensions on your browser. They are just a nightmare waiting to happen. And it's Open Source, too - so security holes are much easier to find than the closed source IE.
Now, I'm not a big fan of IE and I do tell newbies to use Firefox, but mainly because a newbie is the one that's in danger of doing the things on the Internet that will cause IE to get infected: looking at porn, going onto warez sites, clicking on that email that says "Britney blows off a horse". If they're using Firefox and Thunderbird, then they probably won't get a problem due to the different ways the engines work and protect their users.
Once you realise that there's enough porn on the internet that's not riddled with malware to keep your right arm busy for years and warez really aren't that hard to find off the web and that Britney really has never been anywhere near the genitilia of a horsey, then you can go back to IE if you want and probably never have a problem again.